Infront Sports and Media, is the Swiss agency that holds the majority rights to the World Superbikes series has been put up for sale on June 20th and supposedly one of the bidders will be Bridgepoint Capital, the investment firm who owns Dorna and therefore the MotoGP rights.
However Bridgepoint has been having financial problems in paying back its interest repayments and has been renegotiating with the banks for a reduction, and would they actually be interested embarking in this ulterior investment at this time?Whatever the outcome, I can already begin to hear the screaming over here in Italy when this piece of news gets out.
Fighting over whether WSBK or MotoGP is a better championship is a topic that comes up every race day, and there is a very deep and unshakeable belief that Dorna, in the person of Carmelo Ezpeleta is systematically out to destroy or at least is heavily encroaching into WSBK’s territory, with the new 2012 MotoGP rules which will allow production based engines in the series and that the FIM is siding with them on the sly.